'Chance to Tell the Truth to Director Hong Myung-bo'Jun 'Usaengsoon'Rep. Lim Oh-kyung Respects Sports
Sep 24, 2024
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Representative Lim Oh-kyung (Democratic Party of Korea) explained the reason why he devoted enough time to respond to the A national team coach Hong Myung-bo immediately after the question.
On the 24th, a question on pending issues of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee was held at the main building of the National Assembly in Yeouido. We looked at the process of appointing the coach of the A national team of the Korea Football Association and the controversy surrounding the Korea Badminton Association and the Korea Sports Association. In all three organizations, there are a total of 25 witnesses and a total of 8 witnesses. At the Korea Football Association, five people, including Chairman Chung Mong-kyu, A national team coach Hong Myung-bo, technical director Lee Im-saeng, former chairman of the national team's power reinforcement committee, and Park Joo-ho, former power reinforcement committee member, were selected as witnesses.
Most of the morning questions were aimed at the Korea Football Association, as if representing national concerns. After Klinsmann's resignation, he pointed to the process and procedural fairness of the appointment of the coach.
Rep. Lim, secretary of the Democratic Party of Korea at the National Assembly's Culture and Sports Committee, asked for the second time before and after Rep. Park Jung-ha, secretary of the People's Power. It was shortly after the crossfire against Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, and Hong Myung-bo, coach. Parliamentary inquiries always run out of time. There are countless suspicions about itI'm running out of absolute time to put one process into words. The questions are long, but the answers are short. "Please make it short."I will be sorry for the request of " "I'll improve it."It is easy to end with a normal and ceremonial answer.
Representative Lim, a former sportsman, gave director Hong enough time to answer when the morning questioning was almost over. Her inquiries were based on respect for athletes. Ulsan HD, which has won its second consecutive K League 1 title, is called 'Ulsan FC', and head coach Hong's first A-team World Cup in Brazil was called 'Brazil Olympics'. It was not even a vague question whether the place where Lee Im-saeng, a technical director, and Hong interviewed was a bakery or a cafe. After the lawmakers' questioning, Rep. Lim asked head coach Hong "Was he willing to serve as a coach for the national team from the beginning, and why he changed his words after refusing to serve as a coach?" Coach Hong said "I was in charge of the team since the season began in February, but our team and fans were so shaken and the team was difficult. I didn't have any suggestions from my point of view, but I was right to say no." Rep. Lim, who read the minutes of the 1st to 11th meetings of the National Team's power reinforcement committee for the appointment of the national team coach, rather pointed out this part, believing that there was a problem with the previous process of appointing Klinsmann. He then gave director Hong Myung-bo and chairman Chung Mong-kyu the right to speak.
Representative Lim said "Tell us the truth we want to know. The people have the right to know about this truth and have an obligation to inform it." He turned to Chairman Chung Mong-gyu "I heard that the chairman preferred a foreign director. There is also a story that he wanted director Hong. The chairman asked, "Who on earth did you want, a foreign coach or a Korean coach?" Chairman Chung said "Both are not. Jung Hae-sung, former chairman of the committee, once asked 'Do you like foreigners or domestic coaches?' Even then, I told them to fully discuss what we need most for our national team and make a good decision whether it's a domestic or foreign coach." "I'm very sorry to director Hong Myung-bo. On social media, it is said that hundreds of thousands of views come out when `my heart is like this and that.' I think there was a distorted news that said something I didn't even think of.'
Coach Hong also got the first opportunity to express his mind during a questionnaire earlier in the day. He explained why he took the helm of the Korean national soccer team once again, even though he knew it was a poisoned chalice, leaving behind the happy days with the players by challenging for the third consecutive win at Ulsan HD. "I feel very heavy after listening to the lawmakers. Actually, I was happy as Ulsan HD director. It was good to play soccer while receiving support and love." "The hardest time in my football career was right after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. I wanted to run away and not go because I know better than anyone how difficult and difficult the World Cup team is." It was difficult to ignore the difficulties of Korean soccer when meeting Chairman Lee Im-saeng. While in Ulsan HD, I thought a lot about what I should have done when I was in the national team. I didn't say I wouldn't go, but I was offered for the first time that day. After my last service to the national team, I thought I would never have a sense of duty for Korean soccer again 10 years ago, but after the meeting with Chairman Lee Im-saeng, I decided that way."
Hong did not shy away from reporters' request for an interview after asking in the morning. "I couldn't say, but I was able to say thankfully that Lim Oh-kyung gave me time at the end. I think it's a relief." In response to the criticism that there was no interview process "This director wrote everything I said. I listened to this director and talked about my thoughts. There was the technical philosophy of Korean soccer, my soccer philosophy. He talked about my technical formation, soccer style, attack and defense, including ways to connect the national team. At the end, the director explained, "It's not right to ask me to do something about the national team, but he suggested it to me, and he decided it." Asked if there were unanswerable questions, not in the area of supervision "It's not something I can tell. It is difficult to tell you if you ask me if it is fair, not that I was in the power reinforcement committee." "From the perspective of the executive director I did before, I don't think this process gave preferential treatment. In particular, the role of the committee ended after the 10th meeting. The final three were chosen. The director's role is to meet and negotiate with them. For example, in the past, Chairman Kim Pan-gon placed four to five final candidates and did not reach the first to third round, so the fourth Bento was selected. That's the role of the powerhouse. I think it's a role to negotiate sequentially."
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